St Martin

This Sunday afternoon we're back home to catch up on work and stuff but, before I start, I thought I'd tell you about our Friday night. You see November 11th in Germany is St Martin's day and in the evening all the children (and their parents) dress up warmly and parade through the streets while proudly showing off their 'lanterns.'
Who was St. Martin? He was a Roman monk who cut his cloak in half to share with a beggar during a snowstorm. As the moon hung in the dark sky over Schwieberdingen, Juliette and Regis' home town, the parade was hence led by a Roman on a horse (that is, by St Martin) and finished in a church with a small reading of the history and, most importantly, with bretzels to munch on the way home!.